Police Search for Escaped Sex Offender

Authorities are searching for a convicted rapist who escaped with three others Saturday night from a state treatment center for sex offenders in St. Peter, Minnesota. The other three escapees were later captured.

Michael Dale Benson (pictured), 42, and three other men escaped through a window after they removed a metal bar and smashed a security window. Using search dogs and a helicopter, police captured two of the men at a local gas station and another at a local pub.

Police Chief Matt Peters said Benson may have left the area in a stolen green four-door 1997 Ford Crown Victoria with Minnesota license plate number MXB-801.

Benson, a Level 3 sex offender, pleaded guilty to rape in 1989 and served a prison sentence until 1993 when he was committed to the sex offender program.

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